Léa Bismuth
critique d'art
Auteure et critique d’art, sa pratique mêle littérature et art contemporain. Elle écrit notamment dans artpress depuis 2006. Nourrie de philosophie, elle a initié le programme de recherche curatoriale La Traversée des Inquiétudes (un cycle d’expositions d’après Georges Bataille de 2016 à 2019).
Le gel – L’île
Flora Mérillon / Léa Bismuth
“Le gel – L’île combines two travels, two aspects of a photographic territorial research through the prism of my imagination and emotions, a fiction based in Saint-Laurent’s gulf in Quebec. I had planned to meet with Mother-Earth and the documentary side of exploring these regions led to a broader, more introspective field.
LE GEL – Winter of 2013, Gaspésie, Prince Edward Island, Magdalen Islands, North Shore. I went out to meet this winter, wandering through these vast spaces when the living conditions are harsher and nature seems to be taking over. I was moved by the solitude of generations of women.
L’ÎLE – Summer of 2016. I visited the Anticosti Island, the largest of the gulf: 8000 km2 of preserved forests, pure rivers, a village and approximately 200 inhabitants. It’s the archetype of a desert island. Haunted by the stories of its castaways, it seems unattainable.” (Flora Mérillon)
Le gel – L’île
21 x 16 cm, 124 pages printed in two-color on Splendorgel Avorio 100g, circa 80 reproductions in two-color, bound in full Wibalin Cotton White 120g paper. Text by Léa Bismuth. Edition of 400 copies, 50 of which are signed and accompanied by a photographic print. CURRENT EDITION SOLD OUT